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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1997
Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Kasukabe, JP;
Masami Takemoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vibration reducing camera comprises a vibration reducing optical system, a vibration reducing drive unit for reducing vibrations by changing a state of the vibration reducing optical system, a state detecting unit for detecting a state of the vibration reducing optical system, a fixing unit for fixing the vibration reduction optical system in a predetermined initial state, a photographic condition changing unit for performing a predetermined number of photographing operations while stepwise changing a part of photographic conditions, a photographic condition setting unit for setting at least a number of exposures in the photographic condition changing unit, and a control unit for controlling the vibration reducing drive unit, the state detecting unit, the fixing unit and the photographic condition changing unit. The control unit defines the allowable range of variation quantity of the vibration reducing optical system on the basis of a number of exposures and an already-exposed number that are set in the photographic condition setting unit.